Changing Instrumentation light colour on NB30P3

TieNN89 · Postby **TieNN89** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:02 pm

drifter wrote:I prefer the stock NB8B lights. Highly visible and very easy on the eyes.

what colour is that?

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:28 am

AZNTieN wrote:
drifter wrote:I prefer the stock NB8B lights. Highly visible and very easy on the eyes.

what colour is that?

I'm assuming he's referring to "red".

RG.net · Postby **RG.net** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:16 pm

finally changed my lights to white, took me about 1 hour to dessemble and sand the backing. Still need to adjust the needles a bit

RG.net · Postby **RG.net** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:47 pm

Postby **Okibi** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:05 pm

Looks good, glad someone else confirmed there's a green gel on the dials.

RG.net · Postby **RG.net** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:01 pm

Okibi wrote:Looks good, glad someone else confirmed there's a green gel on the dials.

the needles are a bit of a pain to realign, how are the mazdaspeed gauges? did they have a gel behind them?

Postby **Okibi** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:41 pm

Nope they're perfect. :mrgreen:

tuned_to_fly · Postby **tuned_to_fly** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:34 am

I'm ordering my bulbs today hopefully...

So its T10 for the main gauges.
T5 for the trip meter.
And anyone know what the HVAC Unit globes are?

yakob · Postby **yakob** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:57 am

MXHEVN wrote:i have done the dash, i'm not sure if its all the same as an nb8b/c but i'll write up a quick tutorial.

i also wanted a cool blue going throughout the dash and tryed the blue condoms over the existing bulbs which didnt work for me (the nb8a dash is coloured green, but i was told that the blue condom blub goes through the orange dash's) so i ended up getting some sets of l.e.d's, make sure they have more then one bulb built into them.

you will need 4 bulbs for the main gauges, if you wanted to change the trip meter you will need a smaller bulb.

1. take your steering colum off, it should just yank off
2. take the dash cover off, this should also yank off, you will hear a pop, this is normal
3. you will see four screws one in each corner, unscrew them
4. the gauges should be loose enough for you to pull towards you, flip it and remove the three plugs behind it for easier access.
5. the four green knobs are the main lights that will change the gauge lighting. if you are going to use the leds you will have to check all of them to see if they all light up.
6. put everything back together and enjoy. (yes i have done it lots of times lol)

this is my end result

as for the hvac controls, i am also looking on how to change the lighting, i remember a tutorial made some time ago, but i cant seem to find it, wasnt to hard though.

i actually REALLY want to do this.

what type of leds do i buy? forgive my ignorance.
how do they light up the whole gauge. is the green light a bulb, or colouring on the tachos?

MXcrazy · Postby **MXcrazy** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:40 pm

There's an LED dash kit on ebay by ZPE for $20, which is pretty good value. It consists of 4 T10 wide-angle wedge bulbs, and a t5 bulb for the speedo/trip display..

yakob · Postby **yakob** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:44 pm

MXcrazy wrote:There's an LED dash kit on ebay by ZPE for $20, which is pretty good value. It consists of 4 T10 wide-angle wedge bulbs, and a t5 bulb for the speedo/trip display..

link ?

:D:D:D:D

yes i am too lazy to look..

ma64rk · Postby **ma64rk** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:42 am

[quote="mx5boi"]Yep
[Some say that he is wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down, like a bat. All we know is... that he owns an MX5
/quote]
the best sig ever!!!
I want to steal it.

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:19 pm

mx5boi wrote:

I am happy

Hey MX5boi... how did you make the background blue while still having the needles red.. this looks great. i have some blue LEDs on their way.

Cheers mate

crzymx · Postby **crzymx** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:40 pm

I am so frustrated right now, i have used 2 different types of led's, including a flood and cluster, i have bought condoms to use on the lights, and nothing has come up bright. Only one figure will light up and the rest will be dim apart from the needles which do illuminate. I dont know hwo other people have had success using the same cluster type led's as me!. Anyone got any ideas?

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:50 pm

crzymx wrote:I am so frustrated right now, i have used 2 different types of led's, including a flood and cluster, i have bought condoms to use on the lights, and nothing has come up bright. Only one figure will light up and the rest will be dim apart from the needles which do illuminate. I dont know hwo other people have had success using the same cluster type led's as me!. Anyone got any ideas?

Check out Page 3 of this thread as it shows the bulbs that most of the guys here have bought from eBay that was bright enough the illuminate the dash properly.

As this thread also suggested, using condoms does not work. It just dulls the light.

Also check this other thread within this forum of someone using a different LED bulb (also purchased from eBay) that someone has recently used that also did the trick.